is not just costing jobs but leaving millions without health insurance. half of americans gets their insurance through work. michelle miller has one man's story. >> what does it mean? some days you want to go to the doctor and see what else is wrong with you but you can't. >> rodney watts was working at atlanta's p hartsfield jackson. >> it was bad. i've been working since i was 14. not havingle health insurance, i'm a type ii diabetic. >> reporter: he's been paying for his insulin with unemployment benefits. it costs around $400 a month. he was hospitalized after a lump was discovered on his struggle. we've that go away, i don't know. >> reporter: the kaiser family foundation estimates that about 27 million americans are at risk of losing coverage during the pandemic. >> we're seeing an unprecedented loss in jobs and what's going to come along with that is unfortunately the loss of insurance as well. >> reporter: larry leavitt is the vice president of health policy. >> it's never a good thing to lose your health insurance but it's particularly risky in the midst of a pandemic where people are getting infected. >> reporter: they estimate that four out of five people who lost their employer insurance are eligible for the nark or medicate. many don't know about it. leavitt is concerned that p will avoid testing and treatment. >> health insurance hesitate to seek medical care worried about the big medical cares they'll face. we want them to get in to care and get tested so they can avoi. >> reporter: as for rodney watts, he said he's determined to get health insurance. >> i got to go find work. i have got to get my health coverage. i got a lot of people dmends on me. i got a wife, grand kids, kids of other people. and i can't fail him. ♪upbeat music she's doing it again. no cover-up spray here. it's the irresistibly fresh scent of febreze air effects. 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some were wealthy pillars of society, like charles hibbert. paid about $6 million in today's money. >> he didn't need the spare change. >> george hibbert owned thousands of slaves. some owned far fewer. >> and 48 pounds, almost 49. >> for two -- >> for two slaves. >> the 49 pounds is worth about $7,000 now. >> the pay the loan back to the bank of england. >> the black studies are collar and writer, the fact the british government used borrowed money to compensate the slave owners means that in a cruel twist the generation of immigrants who moved to britain from the caribbean ended up footing part of the bill. >> me, my grandmother and all the descendants chb paying back reparations to slave owners. >> through the taxes. >> through the taxes. usually pay to have freedom. >> the prosperity of many modern companies and families can be traced back to vefts made with those payments. the green king public chain is it'sn embarrassed into policemening funds to fight racism. the same goes for loids of london, one of the world's biggest insurance markets which made huge profit from the slave trade. >> they're so deeply rooted in slavery, one of their businesses was to edge sure slave ships. >> give away 911 charity, it's frankly offensive. >> is this poi a whichpp >>ll i think it's innocent, the killing of somebody 3,000 miles away to start to acknowledge your racism in many forms. >> the death of a man under the knee of an american cop have confronted them to confront their history. >> the author of "the black code" was splattered in red paint. in belgium statues of leopold ii infamous for his rule over after caps in the kopgo, made a similar fate. >> it's just the straw that broke the camel's back. here it's the same way. we have the same problems, economics, covid 1, unemployment. we've seen historically racism is not an american problem. it's a world problem. now we're having a global conversation. >> in bristol, a local artist put up a statue of one of the protesters. the city took it down the next day. wrs rkir lives on the front line in the battle against steve hartman has the story of one hero that he found on the road. >> we begin today with an alarming new milestone. >> reporter: as the misery spreads, most of us are relieved to be watching most of us from the safety of our sofas. bevin was one of those comfortableably on the couch. but some switch flipped in you? >> it was a switch. wait a minute. why am i sitting here? >> a nurse, she had just emy.racted a serious case of >> ki imaginthese being so exhausted, so stressed out, if i could just go and relieve a shift for them. >> reporter: that was a month ago. and today bev ip is working at mount sinai queens, the pep center of the outbreak in new york city. she cares for the sickest patients under the most demanding conditions simply because she believes she was made for a moment like this. >> i was in a bank robbery, i was tied up for 15 memberships, i was held at gunpoint. tying us up, i asked him are we on candid camera. >> reporter: at that point i ed this isy respects. getaid for legal shs to donate everything she makes to the sount sinai support staff. the fact is she could use the money. she has student loans and is a single woman with twin 16-year-old boys back home. did she ask you if she could do it or did she tell you? >> you sure you want me to? >> why didou say yes? >> life is not to serve yur but to serve others. >> these apples didn't fall far. >> i believe it's our duty to do something when we can. >> there's a switch that goes off during perilous time. whether it's the football coach, the nfl mayorhooins the army after 9/11 or the nurse who simply stands up from her couch. there will always b those who run towards disaster when tf we all swed couldn't . handle it, couldn't do it? what if everybody said that? >> reporter: it wasn't be america. steve hartman, cbs news on the road. >> and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. i'm kris van cleave reporting from the studios in washington. captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: breaking news tonight: historic choice. captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ rennaneakig news tonight: historic choice. joe biden picks senator kamala harris as his running mate. tonight, why supporters say selecting a woman of color and a former rival matters. and how harris could change the race for the white house. plus, president trump sounds off tonight on the new democratic ticket. postponing college sports. also breaking tonight, two of the biggest college conferences say they'll delay all fall sports. footba sean?end of the college at it ans for studbueslt around the. in the air: stunning new research shows droplets of coronavirus can stay indoors much longer than thought. why scientists now say staying

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